Wednesday, January 18, 2012

"White-Label" Offering Enables Every Academic Publisher - No Matter Its Size - to Offer State-of-the-Art Solution within Days, Five Publishers Now In Program

New York, NY, January 18, 2012 - AcademicPub™, the leading provider of custom books - print and digital - for higher education, today announced four additional "white-label" agreements with academic publishers who serve the college and university market, enabling these publishing partners to provide multiple options for sales and fulfillment to their customers.

Attracted by AcademicPub's custom branding choices, pricing control capability, print or e-book fulfillment and specialized work-flow support, three premier units of Taylor & Francis - CRC Press, a publisher of scientific and technical work; Garland Science, a specialist in developing life-science textbooks; and Routledge, a 160-year-old provider of quality academic books and journals for the humanities and social sciences - today signed white-label deals with the higher education unit of SharedBook Inc.

Lynne Rienner, known for its cutting-edge scholarly books, textbooks and journals in politics, social sciences and the humanities, is also white-labelling the AcademicPub platform, effective Feb 1.

At the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair, AcademicPub announced its first white-label deal with Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, a partnership now successfully in operation.

"Custom publishing in higher education has until now been dominated by the handful of large companies who can afford internal software development and who can outlast their own very slow time to market," said Vanderlip. "Our white-label solution is a game changer. Within a few weeks, we can cost effectively make any publisher's content available through a custom platform. This capability turns old business models on their head and saves real money, which ultimately inures to the benefit of both the publishers and the students they are serving."

Added Vanderlip: "Our message to faculty members has always been simple: your book, your way. Their response to us has also been straightforward: we want lower prices and up-to-the-minute materials for our students. With our white-label capability gaining traction, the stage is set for rapid adoption of our offering. Professors can now marry their own materials with a specific publisher's content, and with material from the Web writ large, making it faster and easier for them to prepare and to teach."

About AcademicPub
AcademicPub, Sharedbook Inc's technology platform for higher education, assembles, composes, prices and delivers custom textbooks - in eBook and/or print format. AcademicPub allows for immediate creation and inclusion of copyright-cleared content from anywhere, such as web articles, self-generated lectures or from the AcademicPub Content Library. Digital or print distribution generates a fast and easy way for educators to provide an engaging educational experience, with lower prices and up-to-the-minute materials for students. More information and free registration for faculty is available at www.academicpub.com. Headquartered in New York since 2004, SharedBook Inc. is privately held and can be found at www.sharedbook.com.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

New York, NY, January 10, 2012 - AcademicPub™, a dynamic online
platform that enables college professors to create custom print or e-books
quickly and cost effectively, today announced 22 additional partnerships with
trusted publishing partners, accelerating in the New Year the progress it has
made since launch.

Feeding a burgeoning collection of disaggregated
content from the world's most prominent academic publishers, AcademicPub
revealed publishing partnerships with houses on both sides of the Atlantic,
ranging from Routledge in the United Kingdom to many of the most prestigious
university presses in the United States and abroad.

The announcement was
made by Caroline Vanderlip, CEO, SharedBook Inc., parent company of AcademicPub.

"With a seven-year track record of success serving the consumer custom
book market, it is exciting to see our proprietary technology solution embraced
by the academic publishing community and the institutions we collectively
serve," said Vanderlip. "In the end, it's the student who benefits by being able
to purchase the highest quality, copyright-cleared materials at the lowest
possible price."

Launched in April 2011 with less than 20 academic
publisher partners, the AcademicPub Content Library has grown nearly sixfold in
only nine months, bumping that number to 111 in these early days of 2012.
AcademicPub today unveiled publishing partnerships including: Brookings
Institution Press, Columbia CaseWorks of Columbia Business School, Wm. B.
Eerdmans Publishing, Georgetown University Press, GlobalData, J. Ross
Publishers, Liverpool University Press, Morgan & Claypool, New Academic
Science, New York University Press, Princeton Architectural Press, Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, Transaction Publishers, University of California Press,
University of Chicago Press, University of Iowa Press, University of Virginia
Press, University Press of Kentucky, Wilfred Laurier University Press, and Yale
University Press.

Two prestigious imprints from UK-based Taylor &
Francis Group have also been added to the AcademicPub Content Library. They are
160-year-old Routledge, with notable titles in the humanities and social
sciences; and Psychology Press, a widely respected publisher of academic
psychology books and journals. A complete list of publishing partners in the
AcademicPub Content Library may be found here.

The AcademicPub Content Library, allows
professors to search and select from more than two million units of
copyright-cleared articles, textbook chapters, scholarly research and cases for
use in their custom course packs that are dynamically created by the AcademicPub
service.

In addition, other components of the AcademicPub Content
Library include The Textbook Collection, which contains chapters from
structured textbooks in multiple disciplines; The Scholar Collection,
through which professors and researchers can add their independently
authored materials to the Content Library and set the royalty payments they
would like to receive; and The Open Educational Resource Collection,
which provides easy access to publicly available sources such as Connexions or
material from the U.S. Government.

About
AcademicPubAcademicPub, Sharedbook Inc's technology platform for
higher education, assembles, composes, prices and delivers custom textbooks - in
eBook and/or print format. AcademicPub allows for immediate creation and
inclusion of copyright-cleared content from anywhere, such as web articles,
self-generated lectures or from the AcademicPub Content Library. Digital or
print distribution generates a fast and easy way for educators to provide an
engaging educational experience, with lower prices and up-to-the-minute
materials for students. More information and free registration for faculty is
available at www.academicpub.com. Headquartered in New York since 2004,
SharedBook Inc. is privately held and can be found at www.sharedbook.com.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012

We're having such a great time, come by and visit Angela Battle (abattle@sharedbook.com) at Booth #306 to learn more about custom course pack creation and how you can build the perfect textbook for your class from a library of 2 million pieces of content plus real time copyright clearance.